University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey News

Joe Schwenkler, M.D., medical director and assistant professor at the physician assistant program at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, received the 2009 New Faculty Award for Professional Excellence from the Physician Assistant Education Association at its recent forum in Portland, Ore.

Russell Joffe, one of the three final candidates for the dean of the Medical School, removed his name from consideration Tuesday.

Nuns tossed Marque Allen out of grade school for misbehavior, and high school teachers told him he wasn't "college material." But Glassboro State College biology professor Richard Meagher saw something else: a future doctor.

PHOTOS >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Held dear by many hearts, boy dies in mother's arms Community members who rallied to support a Hudson County corrections officer's sick son are now mourning his death.

Hudson County Corrections Officer Lillian Whitted, 27, of Jersey City, at the bedside of her 14-month-old son Kenneth Black, who died yesterday at UMDNJ in Newark.

From the Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, New Jersey Medical School, Newark, N.J. Correspondence to Hreday N. Sapru, Department of Neurological Surgery, MSB H-586, UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School, 185 South Orange Ave, Newark, NJ 07103.

The much-anticipated movie Precious opens on November 6. The film, whose executive producers include Oprah Winfrey, tells the bleak story of an obese, illiterate 16-year-old Harlem girl who is pregnant with her second child and who suffers daily verbal and physical abuse at the hands of her mother.

Advanced Cell Technology filed an Investigational New Drug application yesterday to conduct a phase I/II trial using hESCs to treat a genetic eye disease.

Main Category: Swine Flu Also Included In: Allergy ; Immune System / Vaccines Article Date: 19 Nov 2009 - 3:00 PST As flu season got underway this fall, Dr.

Jeffrey Krantz, the Head of East Village Dental, has been appointed as a clinical staff member at the University Correctional HealthCare which is a division of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey .

Originally published as Genetics Published Articles Ahead of Print on August 24, 2009.

Society as a whole will benefit after a huge boost in research funding from the federal stimulus to major universities, even if the jobs are only beginning to show up, scientists and congressional supporters said Tuesday.

Simple gene modification makes it happen. The common laboratory worm Caenorhabditis elegans is one of nature's most widely studied creatures, yet scientists still aren't sure how it developed an amazing trick: Some specimens are self-fertile hermaphrodites, meaning they can have kids all by themselves.

Front row from left, Raymond Scarpa, RN; Deborah Zastocki, RN; Fay Spragley, RN; Marianne Reilly, RN; Ann Sailsman, RN; Linda Ries, RN; and Jane O'Rourke, RN.

More than two years ago, Ellen Casey - a former high-level purchasing official for the state's medical university - claimed she was fired after raising questions about millions in lucrative contracts that were never publicly bid.

But now growing numbers of researchers are abandoning the stalwart species to investigate closely related worms that offer better insights into the origins of complex biological traits.

Glenbrook Technologies of Randolph, New Jersey has received two awards in one year for the company's innovative advances in x-ray imaging technology.

The tragedy last week at Fort Hood, Texas, where an Army psychiatrist anticipating active duty has been blamed for killing 13 people and wounding 29 others in a shooting rampage, has sharpened the nation's focus not just on the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, but also on another casualty of war: soldiers' mental health.

In January 2009, Cytokinetics announced the selection of a small molecule inhibitor of smooth muscle myosin for development.

With the tragic events at Fort Hood in Texas fresh in our minds, this weeka s observance of Veterans Day, and President Obamaa s pending decision on future troop levels in Afghanistan, the nationa s attention is firmly focused on the physical and psychological well being of those who serve in Americaa s armed forces.